Pest Reporting
Publication date: 14 Sep 2016
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
What type of pests are meant to be reported?
Answers:
The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) requires contracting parties to report on the occurrence, outbreak and spread of pests with the purpose of communicating immediate or potential danger. National plant protection organizations (NPPOs) have the responsibility to collect pest information by surveillance and to verify the pest records thus collected. Occurrence, outbreak or spread of pests that are known (on the basis of observation, previous experience, or pest risk analysis (PRA)) to be of immediate or potential danger should be reported to other countries, in particular to neighbouring countries and trading partners.
Pests are defined in ISPM 5 as:
Any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products. Note: In the IPPC, “plant pest” is sometimes used for the term “pest” [FAO, 1990; revised ISPM 2, 1995; IPPC, 1997; CPM, 2012].
For further information on pest reporting please refer to ISPM 17: https://www.ippc.int/en/publications/606/
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